Posted by: funkybuddha917 October 10, 2009
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There are about 20 students at Harvard altogether and 10 at MIT, more than half of whom are grad students (either in a Master's or a doctoral program). A MIT post-doc earns, depending on the lab and the kind of research, anywhere from $38,000 to 50,000+, the latter especially if it's one of the endowed/spnsored fellowships with industries like Novartis.
Rockefeller pays not only the stipend money but also extra $2500 every year to buy books, softwares, new macbooks or to use it on travel expenses for conferences etc and the amount actually is cumulative over the years if you don't use all in one year. Both Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller provide excellent housing (heavily subsidized) on Upper East-Side of Manhattan.
I don't need to exaggerate things and I fail to understand why you would presume I did. I was only sharing what I know from having gone through the application process and spent considerable time in picking a program; and if anyone on Sajha wants to find out more about top PhD programs in research/life sciences, I will be happy to answer any questions s/he may have. Thanks.